Places of Section
2

The Jordan Valley

11. The (place) of Saint
Elisha - ('Ain
al-Sultan)

The sanctuary has a red domed
roof between two towers; a rivulet flows from below its southern
tower in the direction of Jericho

There is a fountain by Jericho,
that runs plentifully, and is very fit for watering the ground:
it arises near the old city which Joshua, the son of Nun, the
general of the Hebrews, took the first of all the cities of the
land of Canaan by right of war (...) it was made gentle, and
very wholesome and fruitful, by the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 2:19-22).
(Josephus, War. 4.8.3)